The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 15, 1891, Page 4

. 7 , % i *, a xs . is friendly to the Farmers’ Alliance, | tion to the presidency of the alliance ES A A SUBSCRIPTION TERM» OF e We esday, will one vear, postage paid, for $1.25. kry Times, published sent to any 4 ——<—<—_S_$ The grasshopper pest in Mexico and Arizona has become a serious matter with ranchers ———— The Globe Doimocrat says taking the tariif off of sugar will save the people fifty million dollars a year. If this be true why not take it off of linware, glassware and the other ne ceysaries of life that the commou people use. as We should all be duly thankful | and curb our impatience for a short time when we shall know it all. The} Union promises to publish next week the sub-treasury plan and ex- pain the justice and constitutionali- y of it Then what's the use of tand Macune, and Terrell and the Journal of Agriculture and oth- ty lesser lights worrying about the natter, let us wait, it willbe as clear as the noon day sun next week, Mrs. Jefferson Davis has at last selected Richmond, Virginia, for the lust vesting place of the body of her} eon ilustrious husband. She briefly re-| as was done when Mr. Walton inves- views the claims of the various) tigated the W. T. Smith defaleation. states to her husband’s remains and arges the fact that in the fullness of lame he did not belong to any purt of the country, but that in Richmond he veeeived generous and unwayer She her personal sacrifice in giving up she hope of dwelling near her hus- she south’s defeat. refers to vand’s resting place and expresses the hope that the states of the con- tederacy will also relinquish their therished plans for the sake of grat- ifying the majority of the veterans of the south who have urged Rich- moud as the proper place for him sho loved them all and labored for their glory. ° The jury in the Ed. T. Noland ense, tried at Jefferson City last week, returned a verdict of guilty on Saturday and fixed his purish- went at two years in the penitentia sy. Ed. T. Noland was treasurer of Missouri and in the spring of 1890 yas suspended be Governor Francis from office pending an examination thereof by a committee appointed by the governor. found a deficiency of $32,725.69, and on Mr. Noland’s failurd to satis- Jactorily explain same, he was per- manently suspended and Lon! yport in the darkest hours of | The committee | poration attorney at the Ocala con-| COURTS AN INVESTIGATION. I s does not fear an inves- tigation of the county records under lemoeratic >. We court such ud the union labor » redeem their pledges made before the last ctien are bound to see that it is But while we want the books detail, ere has been nude examined in and frauds, of any committed, ex- posed fully, yet we want to see sueh Investigation conducted according to law. There is no provision of Jaw that authorizes a county court to employ a bookkeeper to overhaul the reeords of any office and pay him out of the county funds, au action of the backed by a petition as long as a fourth of July oration of Hon. Thomas Jefferson court, no Hendrickson, would be a of | county funds,and the court wouid be | amenable under the statutes made! and provided for such offenses. If! the present county officers are not! competent to overhaul the books, | and we do net think that even the lay claim to wo extrava- misappropriation will uussumption that they are competent.) let the U. L. party raise the ioney by subseription or through their lodges for the pur- Or if | they haye implicit confidence that pose of employing an expert. anything is wrong. as they profess to believe, let the investigation be, tl ucted on the commission plan, As for the county court paying J. M. Boring and L. B. Allison out of € aty funds for exam ning county } | reeo | yadin Is, that was under republican uistration at which time inany u awful ucts were committed. It looks very aus if there was a “niger in the wood pile” for these secret petitions to bo circulated over jthe county through union labor | lodges and not be presented to tax- | payers, irrespective of polities. But | then these union labor fellows be- lieve strictly partisan action even to the choosing of jurors. U.S, Hall's Aggressor. Dr. C. W. Macune, who is after) the scalp of U. S Hall, should not be touched except with a pair of long handled pincers, says the cors respondent to the St. Louis Repub lie at) Washington. He managed the alliance exchange of Texas,much to the regret of many who lost heav- ily by him. He boasts that he will! scalp US. Hail. Why? Hall ex | posed Macune’s disgraceful deal | with Pat Calhoun, the Georgia cor vention. Calhoun had nothing in| common with the farmers aud labor- We don't hew much money Mcaune reeeived for his i ers. know ed Treasurer. The first trial result- | ed ina bung jury. The attorneys | for Noland made application fer aj| new trial and failing in this they | will appeal the case to the supreme | rourt. | ‘Gf the Union, as it pretends to be, | why does it fight vehemently and vindictively every man and measure in that organization that does not} souform to the third party move- ment. The constitution of the or- dex expressly declares against polit-| cal action. President Hall and the} Journal of Agriculture in attempting to carry out the provisions of the} zonstitution haev the bitterest oppo- | sotion of the Union. Dr. Macune, editor of the National Economist, | a man who left Texas under a cloud and whose transaction with the Alli- | acee in that state was exceedingly | shady, the Alliance state convention | fast week repudiating him; a man| who was tried by a committee, ap- | pointed by the National Alliance, | for his action in selling out the | Georgia Alliance and electing a rail | xoad. attorney as United States sena- tor. It can ve established that this } committee made a report condemn- | img Macune and was afterwards fre-| vailed on to change its report. This man who threatens to have Presi- dent Hall's scalp because Hall ex- posed him in his true colors, finds a ready champion in the Union of this city. If the Union is an Alliance paper why doesn't it conform to the principles of that order, otherwise why does it presume to dictate to’ the farmers in this county and pose as their special champion? hada deal with Calhoun, and for! which he received the alliance nomi-| nation for U. S. senator. U.S. Hall! worked up the facts in the case and | exposed him before the Ocala con- | vention. That made Macune mad} and he is threatening vengeance.and says he will defeat Hall for re-elec. in Missouri. Missouri farmers will not be misled by Macune. He isa jobber in politics. He is in the pay tions. He rides on passes furnished him by railroad He is; magnates 4 ; agricultural country in jof the great rocky 1 |eity, of ten ; tinet and separate falls. of the radicAl party and corpora. | ate our dinner in the spray of the! COLORAO SPRINGS. ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—————__— Mexico Ledger: We never saw Real Estate Insurance, ike of people who. to Loan. cal warta Weather, feel cal A Weeks Stay at the Saratoga of =— the West. K save the Den an electric car to M where souri from ved by the we drank of the soda water. then PET least two Ye edi r, believing bi titled to a short vacati night’s uneventful travel over the Missouri Pacific, one of the best ruil- roads in the United States, wi ch runs through a portion of the finest the west, early Sunday morning our attention was called to what appeared dark, heavy, white capped clouds, whic lay in the west, we were intormed | that it was the first view of the Rocky |) Mountains, Sixty-five or Far to Spanish peaks arose in their majeety, with their white, snow covered crests apparently touching the sky. The traveler is lmpressed seventy miles away the south the not dee with the solemn and as andeur aL this distance. It requires ac tion and contact ciate his ow: d presence of this work of power yond the h hend Ai to ¢ ride ours aud we reach Pueblo, 1ere 20 minutes is igiven for breakiast. This is pretty place, in fax pearance of b but itis full of business nnd a man- ufacturing city. Here we of Mineral Pal bears th ap- ty and smoky, { a sight ee, Where allt nan eral. of Colorado is rhown. It isa beautiful exposition —buile 2 tok unique architecture aut | red stom so cOmlno: At 31 lows of Pixe's Pe r jady Springs This is a beautiful t tWelve thousan jitants, with electric strest ral cne of the best systems of water works in the United States, the water supply being obtained from |the mountains, and it is pure aud, cold. The houses are principally of {modern build and architecture, some | of them being very fine and costly. They have several very large and tine hotels, the Antlers probably being the finest. This is a city of pleasure and recreation, and little buviness is done outside the livery business and drugstores. The soil is sandy and the yards are kept green | by irrigation Boarding theelectrie cars Monday morning, in company with a num- by Miss Lide Abell, we started for Cheyenne ber of ladies chaperoned Canon. As we approached the moun-! tain talus what appeared to us to be \ shrubbery and underbrush covering -|the mountain side, developed into Stephens, of Boonville, was appoint: |fivence. but it was shown that he | pine and hemlock trees sixty and eighty feet tall. A walk of two miles up this beautiful with its trees, flowers and pure fragrant air, the clear cold water runmung at eur feet and on either side hundreds of feet high deep impression on our minds. eanon, massive rocks made a But the climax is reached when we come into view of the “seven falls.” This clear mountain stream makes a de scent of 500 or 600 feet in seven dis- Here we last fall and after a short rest we be- gan the ascent of over seven hune! gsand after an visited the Iron spri perpendicular cliffs, on ntof hu sheer des feet Nine tr a dis of t Green mountain falls is a nels are traversed in going ilee Miles beautiful aL turesyue place. away up in the mountams, the atmosphere pure and | it is destine 1 to become a 3 great health résort Here a similar experience to the day befure awaited tirely dif us. but the seenery w ferent. Instead of with its granduer, you sre impress- Cade ed with its rowantic features pecially is this true of Cas hitle down thousind beautiful len. gien, 2 +, coming ough a shady gle seek among the t time has rolled i and wh form innu and rapids On Wednesday morning a three seated mountain wagon ¥ is hitched at to whict ited hor the bs of Glex Eyre, » of th Gods. Here words woul. fail if we attempted to tell won- deous ral scenery of the glen; of the towering ro wed up: BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS upwards hundreds of fect high by eles y force in Tn Tl in » House earry the srable faces and Largest and Best Assorted Stock of wiscont Z Hardware, Groceries, e boulde:s being poised dupon incredible sual All of this must be seen | to be appreciated. Our drive took} us through Maniteau and up Ute! | Pass to Rain Bow falls; then a re- pedestals. | | turn of eight miles home, which is ‘reached by a late dinner. | On Thursday the ladies of the | party being tired out, we started | sloue determined to investigate the} | working of the Pike's Peak railroad. | | The railroad station is just above | jthe iron springs at Maniteau. Here | we witness the power of man over nature, of mind over matter. What was a short time ago an almost im- | possible feat for man to climb the | rugged steeps, is now traversed by | rail, with luxurious coaches furnish- | conveniences of | modern i ed with travel, and what before was a hard! two days climb, is now made iu two | The road | inourg and ferty minutes. | follows the course of Raxton creek, ; | which cut a cleft down the mountain | i side. With the aid of dynamite large! | boulders were removed the! | path and the grade from the very! | Start is about 25 feet in the 160 in| |the steeper places. Between the or-} | dinary steel rails, firmly riveted to | the mountain side, is two steel bars, | with cogs cut in same. By tie means | |of three heavy cog wheels the engine | lis made to ascend and descend the} mountain with perfect safety. | Pike's Peak, named after Captain | Zebulon Pike, a brave young soldier | who first took its altitude. 14.000! feet above the sea, in 1816, is of) from getting rich out of his connection | dred steps up the mountain at the! most interest to travelers and tour- | with the alliance. Hall is an honest, man, he will not prostitute his fel-|® delightful glade in which are the! low farmers, their rights and griev- ruins of thesummer cottage of Helen | : \ ances, to his own personal gain. | Macune is N. G--no good.—Henry , County Democrat. Cass County's Bonded Debt. The Harrisonville Democrat; re-| ferring to the township meetings | called July 9 by the County Court ! to consider bond question, thus re-} to its heavy debt. “The straight county debt roind numbers is about $700,000, bearing ten per cent interest. If a/| compromise is effected on the basis week, and the interest reduced to five per cent new bonds, payable in 20 years. we would have to raise $35,000 a year interest. and a sink. ing fund of $35,000 a year to pay the bonds, when they become due. 'Can this amount be raised in addi- tion to our present taxes? In sending Ed. Noland to the pen- was much easier, 2s we took a bur- side of the falls. At the top we find Hunt, the famous Colorado author- ess and poetess Here the wild flow- ers of which she wrote so much in her “Bits of Travel” are found in profusion and the ladies spent a half hour in gathering boquets. Then an- other long climb and we reach the top of the peak where it appears we must certainly see over the other side, when other mountains coa- front us as high as those we have al- ready climbed. And tkus it is for hundreds cf miles through the jof Mr. Little's letter published last rocky SELENE OS Ts BS OE only to find another awaiting you. Upon the top of this last peak we visit the grave of Helen Hunt and cast a few stone. our offering of re- spect, upon the massive pile which marks her last resting place. From here we get a splendid view of the surrounding mountains and plains with our field glass. Our descent itentiary for two years, the law has row trail and wus soon at the bot- | been vindicated. i = on our way home, a very tired ists. It was this magnificent land! mark, with its suow covered crest, | that guided the weary traveler over! the great American desert long be-| fore the iron horse plowed his way| through these vast plain, making the | crossing a pleasure jaunt of a few days, instead of weeks of labor and suf | | fering for man and beast. Like the} (old fashioned portrait, whose eyes! follow you about the reom, no mat- ter in which direction you go you are always just oppcsite Pike's Peak, although each turn lends new beau- ty in changing scenery. The atmos-! phere is so light that its summit ap- pears to be only a short half hours walk | A brief newspaper article can at! the best give but the faintest idea of the beauty and granduer of this mountain scenery. It requires weeks to see all there is to be seen and one. must go in person to fully appreciate it all. The Missouri Ps the most direct route Springs. Fime reclining chair cars and Pullman sleepers ré. run through from Kansas City ut change. The officials of the road are accommodating and courteous and do all in their power to make their passengers comfortable and ‘aaa a pleasant passage. THE CHARTER OAK COOK — Bennett, Wheeler Mercantile Co. |= EMERY BLOCK, BUTLER, MoO. | CATTERLIN’S hour's rest took the tran fer our i 5 family for a week's stay at Colorado x oe . is " 1 destination. This is one ot the most Ve necessity t Springs, that famous health resort : tat ; Sala tees s tui i ides to be found in aid 5 of the west. Leaving Butler ou Sat- ! ‘7 : ; of the eer Bye Colorado. Right along the side of : - urday worning, after a day and ji : 4 n + work in’ ever x the mountain, on one lyon the S on W gu reasous wl vunded. These pr the order from go Wi sregarded the order will goto pieces and not into a third party. Th will never be but two great parties in this country the order was : Man of20 Years Experience ciples prec] e. First door north of express on North Main street. etore sending y E. CATTERLIN, Proprietor. “BENNETT, WHEELER lever these into pouti ciples are Give me work out of a callt your GEO. MERCANTILE CO. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Studebaker and Peter Schutter FARM WAGONS, TOP BUGGIES, SPRING WACONS, Road Carts, Phztons and Carriages. a- WIND MILES, TRON PUMPS, > WATER TANKS AND ALL KINDS OF THE WONDE H ! Wi GLASS AND OUEENSWARE, Barb Wire, Grass Seeds, & Tinware IN SOUTUWEST, MO ND SEE |HOAGONd AULNAOD AO SANIM WIV NOd GIVd SIVATV 301Hd LSSHOIH SHL FARMERS OF BATES CO.. Stand-to-Your- Guns. ae. Wes CASH. CASH. CASH, —IS WHAT—— HARIS & SON, ——IS PAYING THE FARMERS FOR—— Butter, Chickens and Eoos, We have made arrangements which will enable us to handle all the Butter. Chickens and Eggs that comes to Butler. You Can’t Overstock us So bring them to us and be convinced. Pharis & Son will take all you will bring at the highest price, Cash or Trade. The best place in Bates County to sell Butter, Chickens & Eggs. |